Word: anti-british
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While covering a meeting of the anti-British Fadayan Islam, Bell ran into a strange sort of trouble. He and three other correspondents jeeped up to the Shah's Mosque, where a Fadayan fanatic had assassinated Prime Minister Ali Razmara. The crowd of Fadayans suddenly became a shouting, angry mob, surrounded the correspondents' jeep, beat on the window curtains and bounced the little car around. After three false starts down dead-end streets, the correspondents escaped. The cause of all the row: the rioters had thought that Bell was Winston Churchill...
...Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadeq who, as correctly reported by TIME [see Cover Story], is anti-British and somewhat anti-American, is to a greater degree anti-Russian. I doubt very much that he and the Parliament or the Iranian people as a whole will allow the Communists to capitalize on the nationalization of oil in Iran...
...Iran promised that it would sell oil from the nationalized fields to Iran's old customers, none to Russia; 2) Iran's new Premier Mohamed Mossadeq, anti-British and anti-U.S., is also antiCommunist; 3) the British were making vague conciliatory noises-although it clearly seemed too late for conciliation. Said a State Department spokesman: "The only thing that has been lost in this situation as yet is profit to the Anglo-Iranian...
...Deed Is Done. The National Frontists were goaded by the fact that the Communist Tudeh party was trying hard to take over the popular anti-British movement, was yelling that the Nationalists were selling out to the British. Without notice to the Premier, Dr. Mohamed Mossadeq, Frontist leader and Majlis (Parliament) speaker, called a meeting of the parliamentary oil commission, rammed through a report that recommended immediate expropriation of A.I.O.C. The Majlis unanimously made the report the law of the land, provided for a commission to work out details within three months. Majlis members knew that dissent would invite assassination...
...violent enemy of what he considers "foreign encroachment," he has tangled bitterly with American advisers to the Iranian government. He is anti-Russian as well as anti-British, only slightly less anti-American. There is no evidence that the new Premier's government will be able to operate nationalized oilfields-or even maintain order in the country. Iran trembled with reports that the Tudeh party was getting arms from across the Russian border, that violent demonstrations were being plotted...